Louise Cowan (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Cowan, Louise. “Innocent Doves: Ransom's Feminine Myth of the South.” In American Letters and the Historical Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Lewis P. Simpson, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Daniel Mark Fogel, pp. 191-213. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
[In the following essay, Cowan elucidates Ransom's Southern attitude toward women as evinced in his poetry.]
The poems of John Crowe Ransom have been held in high regard during his lifetime and well beyond, widely heralded despite...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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